By Luc Deflo
Jeanneke Janssens ontdekt in de gang van haar rijtjeshuis het halfnaakte lijk van Martine Van Hees, haar huurster. Na de lijkschouwing blijkt dat de vrouw zwanger was once en verkracht werd. De vader van haar ongeboren style kan niet geïdentificeerd worden en alle sporen naar een potentiële dader lopen dood. Er wordt een profielschets gemaakt en males vreest dat er een serieverkrachter aan het werk is. Een monster dat het heeft gemunt op alleenstaande zwangere
vrouwen. Rechercheur Nadia Mendonck, zelf zwanger, neemt de leiding van het onderzoek op zich. Ze bijt zich sizeable in de zaak en er wordt een verdachte opgepakt, die wel bekent maar het onderzoek een onverwachte wending geeft. Er duiken nieuwe sporen op, die rechtstreeks leiden
naar het Mechelse politiekorps dat door corruptie en intriges op zijn grondvesten davert. Gaandeweg krijgen we een vermoeden van wat er echt aan de hand is.
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The cult and how it is used against Gabrielle is important as the connective tissue between the gothic tropes specific to this novel and the criminal underworld that underpins all of Hammett’s work. While the Temple 44 Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction of the Holy Grail underscores the divide between the victimization of Gabrielle and the cunning tricks played on her by Aaronia and Alice, it is also part of what John Scaggs calls the “fakery and artifice that characterise the modern city of hard-boiled fiction [which] drive a wedge between what is seen and what is known” (2005: 72).
More modern theories of women’s crime, ironically, base their concepts on a methodology that ignores women. The “new” criminology, which started in the 1960s and came as a response to traditional criminological theories discussed above, did not utilize an adequate approach to the study of women’s crime. 51 In the United States, the mid-twentieth century was an era of extensive research on criminality, largely dominated by a sociological approach. Yet notably, these studies gave short shrift to the issue of women’s crime.
51 In the United States, the mid-twentieth century was an era of extensive research on criminality, largely dominated by a sociological approach. Yet notably, these studies gave short shrift to the issue of women’s crime. A number of trends contributed to this oversight. First, sociologists moved away from regarding criminal behavior as abnormal and pathological and came to see it as normal and even admirable. Second, the period was marked by the growth of structural approaches to the study of “deviance” such as anomie and Marxist theory (Heidensohn 1985: 127).